Author: Langston Hughes

Cited by

• Susan Sontag (1)
  • IN: In America (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: America will be!
    FROM: Let America Be America Again, (1936), Poem, US
• Ashley Hope Perez (1)
  • IN: Out of Darkness (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
    FROM: Bouquet, (None), Song, US
• Lorie Ann Grover (1)
  • IN: Hit (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
    FROM: Tell Me, (None), Poem, US
• Nicole Mones (1)
  • IN: Night in Shanghai (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I reached the international city of Shanghai in July, with the sun beating down on the Bund, the harbor full of Chinese junks, foreign liners and warships from all over the world. It was hot as blazes. I didn’t know a soul in the city. But hardly had I climbed into a rickshaw than I saw riding in another along the Bund a Negro who looked exactly like a Harlemite. I stood up in my rickshaw and yelled, “Hey, man!” He stood up in his rickshaw and yelled, “What ya sayin’?” We passed each other in the crowded street, and I never saw him again.
    FROM: I Wonder as I Wander, (1934), Book, US
• Macneal. Susan Elia (1)
  • IN: Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I reckon they must have Forgotten about me When I hear them say they gonna Save Democracy. Funny thing about white folks Wanting to go and fight Way over in Europe For freedom and light When right here in Alabama -- Lord have mercy on me! -- They declare I'm a Fifth Columnist If I say the word, Free. Jim Crow all around me. Don't have the right to vote. Let's leave our neighbour's eye alone And look after our own mote -- Cause I sure don't understand What the meaning can be When folks talk about freedom -- And Jim Crow me?
    FROM: Southern Negro Speaks, (1941), Poem, US
• Nella Larsen (1)
  • IN: Passing (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder where I'm gonna die, Being neither white nor black?
    FROM: Cross, (1926), Poem, US
• Ellen Feldman (1)
  • IN: Scottsboro (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who ever heard of raping a prostitute?
    FROM: NULL, (1931), NULL, US